pages : 229 chapter 18
-" Tom and Ma and Pa got into the front seat. Tom let the truck roll and started on compression. And the heavy truck moved, snorting and jerking and popping down the hill. The sun was behind them, and the valley golden and green before them. Ma shook her head slowly from side to side. "It's purty," she said, " I wisht they could of saw it." "
pages : 40, chapter 6
-" The small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an angle, its blind front windows pointing at a spot of sky well above the horizon. the fences were gone and the cotton grew in the dooryard and up against the house, and the cotton was about the shed barn. "
Landscape, Cornish, N.H.
ca. 1890
John White Alexander
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1985.79.1
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
pages : 229 chapter 18-" Tom and Ma and Pa got into the front seat. Tom let the truck roll and started on compression. And the heavy truck moved, snorting and jerking and popping down the hill. The sun was behind them, and the valley golden and green before them. Ma shook her head slowly from side to side. "It's purty," she said, " I wisht they could of saw it." "
Slaughterhouse Ruins at Aledo
1937
Gertrude Abercrombie
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1978.146.1
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
pages : 40, chapter 6-" The small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an angle, its blind front windows pointing at a spot of sky well above the horizon. the fences were gone and the cotton grew in the dooryard and up against the house, and the cotton was about the shed barn. "
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